BUTTERFLY WHISPERING VIDEOS
Butterfly Whispering Videos
These videos are not scripted or constructed.
They are captured moments of recognition
where patterns are spoken as they are seen, rather than explained or performed.
What appears here is not designed to persuade, but to reveal.
The name Butterfly Whispering reflects this.
You cannot force a butterfly to land.
You can only become still enough to notice when it does.
In the same way, these videos exist as a signal.
Some will recognise it immediately.
Others will not.
Both are natural.
If it resonates, you will know.
And if it does, then you are not simply watching.
You are recognising something that was already forming within you.
VIDEO 1 - SHELTER FROM THE STORM
This video is a 10 minute interaction with a Twin Tailed Pasha butterfly. Some interactions are very brief, but some, like this one, can be several minutes long. Each interaction is special in it's own way, but I rate this as one of my top favourites of all time. The wind was so strong at the top of the mountain, so I cupped my hand to shelter the butterfly from the gusts. A very satisfying video to make and to watch.
Twin Tailed Pasha ~ Charaxes jasius
Filmed October 2019
Location: Otivar, Spain
VIDEO 2 - HOLD ON TIGHT
Scarce Swallowtail butterfly (Iphiclides podalirius)
Filmed September 2019
Location: Otivar, Spain
This video is a 5 minute interaction with a Scarce Swallowtail butterfly (Iphiclides podalirius) The light and shadows make this a very pleasing video to watch. The butterfly is in perfect condition as you can see in the video.
VIDEO 3 - DRAGONS DEN
This video is a 2 minute interaction with an Old World Swallowtail (papilla Machaon). I was filming on the hilltop when an unusual object tumbled into the scrub off to my right. I went over to investigates and when I got closer, I saw this Swallowtail upside down, with a huge blue dragonfly, standing on it's belly waiting to eat it. I intervened, and the Dragonfly flew off. I was rewarded, a little later, when the same butterfly came to say thank you.
Old World Swallowtail butterfly (Papilio machaon)
Filmed September 2019
Location: Otivar, Spain
VIDEO 4 - THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT
Twin Tailed Pasha ~ Charaxes jasius
Filmed August 2019
Location: Otivar, Spain
This video is an 8 minute interaction with a Twin Tailed Pasha. I offered my hand up to the Olive branch the butterfly was perched on and coaxed it onto my hand. Some people think that I can make butterflies do as I wish, but that is not how butterfly whispering works. Butterflies are sentient beings, if they wish to interact with me I enjoy it, but I never take it for granted, or assume I have a magical power. I am simply present and that is all we have to be to receive these magical gifts.
VIDEO 5 - TONGUE TIED
This video is another 8 minute interaction with a Twin Tailed Pasha. In this video the Pasha gives me a thorough bathing with her tongue. It is the strangest feeling to be mistaken for a flower. This video was a fun one to make.
Twin Tailed Pasha ~ Charaxes jasius
Filmed August 2019
Location: Otivar, Spain
VIDEO 6 - THE SOUND OF SILENCE
Twin Tailed Pasha ~ Charaxes jasius
Filmed August 2019
Location: Otivar, Spain
This video is the end part of an epic 50 minute interaction. There is so much to say about this interaction, that I decided to dedicate a whole page to try and describe in words what happened on the mountain top that day, and why it changed my life. Click here to visit the Music of the Mountains page.
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